OSNOVNA ŠKOLA U KORAJU
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN KORAJ

Summary/Abstract: The establishment of the Primary School in Koraj in 1882 is one of the most significant events in the rich and centuries-old history of this place. With the establishment of the Austro-Hungarian government in Bosnia in 1878, in just over three years, the local religious scholar Mehmed ef Abdurahmanovic and the mayor of the municipality Sacir effendi Begic, managed to get the new authorities to open an elementary school in Koraj, which at that time meant epochal progress for the Koraj area and its residents as well as the surrounding villages with Orthodox population, which, time will tell, will be a far-sighted window into the world and the new perspective in the emancipation of the local population in step with modern models and trends of human civilization, European and world order. In the first school year 1882/83, 60 students were enrolled in the year, the classes were taught by teacher Arif effendi Muhic, and it was also attended by children from the surrounding villages with Orthodox population, Tetima (Milino Selo), Puskovec and Bobeti Brdo. The elementary school in Koraj shared, throughout the history of its creation and work, the fate of its residents and the town itself, when it stopped working on two occasions in the last eighty years, from 1941 to 1945 and from 1992 to 2005. Namely, Koraj, as a local micro-social and ethnic community of Bosniaks in a period of fifty years (1941-1992), was twice exposed to Serbian armed aggressive attack with the intention of destroying and annihilating the Bosniaks on this small piece of Bosnian land.

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